Draft Specification of Lan Switch: Specification No. Rdso/Spn/Tc/83/2014 Revision 1.0

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LAN SWITCH
SPECIFICATION NO. RDSO/SPN/TC/83/2014
Revision 1.0
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TELECOM DIRECTORATE
RESEARCH DESIGNS & STANDARDS ORGANISATION
Manak Nagar,
LUCKNOW-226011
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Title of Document
RDSO Specification
for
LAN Switch
Author
Director/ Telecom-II/ RDSO
Approved by
Executive Director/ Telecom/ RDSO
Abstract
This document specifies technical specification of LAN Switch for IT

applications in Indian Railways.
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NAME ORGANIZATION FUNCTION LEVEL
Director/ Telecom-II RDSO Member Prepare
Executive Director/ RDSO -

Approve
Telecom
REVISIONS:
Version Chapter/ Revision Effective

Annexure Month/Year
RDSO/SPN/TC/ 83/2008 - FIRST ISSUE August 2008
RDSO/SPN/TC/ 83/2014, - SECOND ISSUE January 2014

Rev. 1.0
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Sr. No. Item Page No.
1. Introduction 6
2. General Requirements 6
3. LAN Switch Layer 3 type suitable for Central & Divisional 8

Hubs
4. LAN Switch Layer 2 type suitable for Sub Divisional Hubs 14
5. LAN Switch Suitable for End Locations (24 Ports) 19
6. LAN Switch Suitable for End Locations (8 Ports) 23
7. Regulatory Compliance of LAN Switches 27
8. Marking & Packing 27
9. Documentation 27
I. SUMMARY:
This document covers the technical requirements of LAN Switches for IT

applications specifically for UTS & PRS applications for Indian Railways.
II. SOURCE:
1. Draft specification RDSO/ SPN/ TC/ 83 /2008, Rev 0.0 have been prepared
by RDSO, Lucknow as per Railway Board letter No. 2006/Tele/TC/1 dated
28/07/2008.
2. Revision 1.0 of the Draft specification RDSO/ SPN/ TC/ 83 /2014, Rev 1.0
have been prepared by RDSO, Lucknow as per Railway Board letter No.
2010/Tele/9(3)/1, dated 15.03.2012
III. FOREWORD:
RDSO/ SPN specification is issued as draft specification. This specification is

circulated to customers/ Railways and field inspection units for comments.
In the absence of IRS specification, procurement may be made as per RDSO/

SPN specification.
Wherever, reference to any specifications appears in this document, it shall be

taken as a reference to the latest version of that specification unless the year of
issue of the specification is specifically stated.
RESEARCH DESIGNS & STANDARDS ORGANIZATION

MINISTRY OF RAILWAYS
MANAK NAGAR, LUCKNOW
Draft Specification of LAN Switch
Draft Specification No: RDSO/SPN/TC/83 /2014 (Revision 1.0)
1.0 INTRODUCTION:
1.1 This specification lays down the technical requirements for the Local Area
Network (LAN) Switches used for LAN connection applications in the Indian
Railways network. The LAN switch shall be used in Internet / Intranet as
mechanism for allowing interconnection of servers, clients, RAS, Routers and
other devices used in the Internet, Intranet, PRS, UTS, FOIS, COIS and other
applications environments in Indian Railways.
1.2 A LAN switch is a local area networking device operating at Layer 1 through
Layer 2 and Layer 3 of the seven layer ISO-OSI model. The basic function of a
LAN switch is to forward packets from one port to another.
1.3 In the path determination function, a switch creates dynamic tables based on
addresses learnt on the network. The creation and dynamic update of this
switching table is part of the intelligence of the switch. Since the switching
occurs in the hardware using Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs),
the latency of a switch shall be very low as compared to shared media
repeaters.
2.0 GENERAL REQUIREMENTS:
2.1 The LAN switch shall be fully solid state and adopt state of the art technology.
2.2 The LAN switch shall be compact, composite construction and lightweight. The
actual dimension and weight of the equipment shall be furnished by the
manufactures.
2.3 All connectors shall be reliable, low loss and standard type so as to ensure
failure free operations over long operations.
2.4 All cables shall be of Gigabit Ethernet ready standards.
2.5 The LAN switch shall have adequate cooling arrangements.
2.6 Each sub-assembly shall be clearly marked with schematic reference to show its
function, so that it is identifiable from the layout diagram in the handbook.
2.7 Each terminal block and individual tags shall be numbered suitably with clear
identification code and shall correspond to the associated wiring their circuit
diagrams and functions.
2.8 The LAN switch shall be designed for continuous operation. The manufacturer
shall furnish the MTBF (Mean Time Between Failure) and MTRR (Mean Time to
Restore) predicted and observed values along with calculations.
2.9 Suitable visual indications for healthy, unhealthy conditions and for non-urgent
alarms shall be provided.
2.10 The design of the equipment shall not allow plugging of a module in a wrong slot
or upside down.
2.11 The removal or addition of any interface cards shall not disrupt traffic on other
cards.
2.12 In the event of a nig found in the software, the manufacturer shall provide
patches and firmware replacement if involved, free of cost. Compatibility of the
existing hardware shall be maintained with future software/firmware.
2.13 In the event of a full systems failure, a trace area shall be maintained in non-
volatile memory for analysis and problem resolution.
2.14 Necessary alarms (indicators) for indication of faults at various levels of

hardware shall be provided on the individual modules.
2.15 A power down condition shall not cause loss of connection configuration data
storage.
2.16 The Hardware and software components shall not pose any problems in the
normal functioning of all network elements wherever interfacing with Indian
Railways network for voice, data and transmission systems, as the case shall
be.
2.17 The system hardware / software shall not pose any problem, due to changes in
date and time caused by events such as changeover of millennium / century,
leap year etc., in the normal functioning of the system.
2.18 The LAN switch shall be protected in case of voltage variation beyond the range
specified and also against input reverse polarity.
3.0 LAN SWITCH LAYER 3 TYPE SUITABLE FOR CENTRAL & DIVISIONAL
HUBS:
3.1 Physical Specification:
3.1.1 The LAN switch shall be rack mountable with 24 Nos. 10/100/1000 Base-T ports
with 4 Nos. 10/100/ 1000 Base-T/1000 Base-X ports.
3.2 General Specification:
3.2.1 The LAN switch shall be available with minimum 56 Gbps Switch Fabric.
3.2.2 The LAN switch shall have minimum packet forwarding rate of 41 million packets
per second at 64-byte packet length.
3.2.3 The LAN switch shall support minimum 12000 MAC address.
3.2.4 The LAN switch shall support 11000 Unicast routes, 1000 IGMP and multicast
groups.
3.2.5 The switch should be stackable with a minimum stacking bandwidth of atleast
64Gbps, through dedicated stack ports. It should support stacking of atleast 4
units high.
3.2.6 The switch shall have dual hot-pluggable redundant power supply (RPS)
module. The switch should not undergo reboot (no downtime) while
adding/removing of redundant power supply.
3.2.7 The switch shall be able to work on both IPv4 and IPv6 (dual stack) from day
one.
3.2.8 All ports in the switch shall operate at wire-speed / line-rate.
3.2.9 The switch shall be capable of working with AC Power Supply with a voltage
varying from 170-240Volts at 50 +/-2 Hz.
3.2.10 It shall have hot swappable fan tray.
3.2.11 The switch shall support 19 inch rack mounting.
3.2.12 The LAN Switch should be PoE compliant as per IEEE802.3af / IEEE802.3at.
3.3 Layer-2 Features:
3.3.1 The LAN switch shall support IEEE 802.1Q VLAN up to 1000 VLANs.
3.3.2 It shall support for Automatic Negotiation of Trunking Protocol, to help minimize
the configuration & errors.
3.3.3 It shall support centralized VLAN Management. VLANs created on the Core
Switches shall be propagated to all the other switches automatically, thus
reducing the overhead of creating / modifying / deleting VLANs in all the
switches in turn eliminating the configuration errors & troubleshooting. It shall
support GVRP or any other industry standard protocol for VLAN pruning and
management.
3.3.4 It shall support spanning-tree Port Fast and Port Fast guard for fast
convergence.
3.3.5 It shall support Port-spanning functionality for measurements using a network

analyzer.
3.3.6 It shall support 802.1d, 802.1p, 802.1Q, 802.1s, 802.1w, 802.1x, 802.1ab,
802.3ad.
3.3.7 It shall support spanning-tree root guard to prevent other edge switches
becoming the root bridge.
3.3.8 It shall support IGMP v1, v2 & v3 as well as IGMP v1, v2 & v3 snooping.
3.3.9 It shall support Link Aggregation Protocol (LACP).
3.3.10 It shall support 802.3ah for Detection of Unidirectional Links and to disable them
to avoid problems such as spanning-tree loops and shall support UDLD or any
other industry equivalent protocol for unidirectional link detection.
3.3.11 It shall support configurable Maximum Transmission Unit (MTU) of up to 9000

bytes, with a maximum Ethernet frame size of 9018 bytes (Jumbo frames) for
bridging on Gigabit Ethernet ports
3.3.12 It shall be able to discover the neighboring device of the same vendor giving the
details about the platform, IP Address, Link connected through etc, thus helping
in troubleshooting connectivity problems. It shall support LLDP or LLDP-MED for
network discovery.
3.3.13 It shall support Multicast VLAN registration.
3.3.14 It shall support for switch port auto recovery (err disable) to automatically re-
enable a link that is disabled because of a network error.
3.3.15 It shall support for Cross Stack Uplink Fast or equivalent technology to provide
for sub second failover.
3.3.16 The switch shall support at least 128 STP instances.

3.4.1 The LAN switch shall have HSRP/VRRP.
3.4.2 The LAN switch shall support IP unicast routing protocols (static, RIPv1, and
OSPF). It shall support IP unicast routing for full layer3 routing between 2 or
more VLANs.
3.4.3 It shall support for advanced routing protocol Border Gateway Protocol Version
4 [BGPv4]) for load balancing and constructing scalable LANs. It shall support
BGP+, BGP (support multi-address family).
3.4.4 It shall support Policy-Based Routing (PBR).
3.4.5 It shall support for IP unicast routing capability (static, RIPv1, RIPv2 and
OSPFv3 protocols) to forward IP traffic through configured interfaces.
3.4.6 It shall support for Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM) for IP Multicast routing,
including PIM sparse mode (PIM-SM), PIM dense mode (PIM-DM), and PIM
sparse-dense mode.
3.4.7 It shall support for Multicast VLAN registration (MVR) to continuously send
multicast streams in a multicast VLAN while isolating the streams from
subscriber VLANs for bandwidth and security reasons.
3.4.8 The switch should support IPv6 routing in hardware including RIPng, and
RFC2740 for OSPF for IPv6.
3.5 Quality of Service (QoS) Features:
3.5.1 The LAN switch shall support classification and scheduling as per IEEE 802.1P
on all ports. It shall support classification and marking based on IP type of
Service (TOS) and DSCP.
3.5.2 It shall have Control- and Data-plane QoS ACLs.
3.5.3 There shall be no performance penalty for highly granular QoS functions.
3.5.4 There shall be four egress queues per port to enable differentiated management
of up to four traffic types across the stack.
3.5.5 There shall be weighted tail drop (WTD) to provide congestion avoidance or
other industry standard protocol.
3.5.6 It shall support strict priority queuing mechanisms.

3.5.7 Granular Rate Limiting function to guarantee bandwidth in increments shall be

as low as 64 kbps.
3.5.8 The LAN switch shall provide traffic shaping and rate limiting features (for egress
as well as ingress traffic) for specified Host, network, applications etc.
3.5.9 Rate limiting support based on source and destination IP address, source and
destination MAC address, Layer 4 TCP and UDP information, or any
combination of these fields, using QoS ACLs (IP ACLs or MAC ACLs), class
maps, and policy maps shall be available.
3.5.10 There shall be support for Asynchronous data flows upstream and downstream
from the end station or on the uplink using ingress policing and egress shaping.
3.5.11 Up to 64 aggregate or individual policers for per Fast Ethernet or Gigabit

Ethernet port shall be available.
3.5.12 There shall be support for Automatic Quality of Service for easy configuration of
QoS features for critical applications.
3.5.13 It shall support QoS configuration on per switch port basis.
3.6 Network Security Features:
3.6.1 The LAN switch shall support IEEE 802.1x to allow dynamic, port-based
security, providing user authentication.
3.6.2 The LAN switch shall support for Admission Control features to improve the
network’s ability to automatically identify, prevent, and respond to security
threats and also to enable the switches to collaborate with third-party solutions
for security-policy compliance and enforcement before a host is permitted to
access the network.
3.6.3 It shall support VLAN ACLs (VACLs) on all VLANs to prevent unauthorized data
flows from being bridged within VLANs. It shall also support port-based ACLs
(PACLs) for Layer 2 interfaces to allow application of security policies on
individual switch ports.
3.6.4 It shall support MAC Address based filters / Access Control Lists (ACLs) on all
switch ports. Shall support Filters/ACLs based on Network Address, Mask,
Protocol Type & Socket Type on all switch ports.
3.6.5 It shall support unicast MAC filtering to prevent the forwarding of any type of
packet with a matching MAC address. Switch shall support per port broadcast,
multicast & unicast storm control to prevent degradation of overall system

performance occurred due to faulty end equipment.
3.6.6 It shall support unknown unicast and multicast port blocking to allow tight control
by filtering packets that the switch has not already learned how to forward.
3.6.7 It shall have support for SSHv2 and SNMPv3 to provide network security by
encrypting administrator traffic during Telnet and SNMP sessions.
3.6.8 It shall support private VLAN to provide security and isolation between switch
ports to ensure that users cannot snoop on other users' traffic.
3.6.9 It shall support Port Mirroring based on port basis / VLAN basis to support
intrusion prevention system deployment in different VLANs.
3.6.10 It shall support dynamic Arp and DHCP snooping to allow administrators to
ensure consistent mapping of IP to MAC addresses. This can be used to prevent
attacks that attempt to poison the DHCP binding database, and to rate limit the
amount of DHCP traffic that enters a switch port.
3.6.11 IP source guard shall be available to prevent a malicious user from spoofing or
taking over another user's IP address by creating a binding table between
client's IP and MAC address, port, and VLAN.
3.6.12 It shall support RADIUS authentication to enable centralized control of the switch
and restrict unauthorized users from altering the configuration.
3.6.13 It shall support MAC address notification to allow administrators to be notified of

users added to or removed from the network.
3.6.14 It shall support DHCP snooping to allow administrators to ensure consistent

mapping of IP to MAC addresses. This can be used to prevent attacks that
attempt to poison the DHCP binding database, and to rate limit the amount of
DHCP traffic that enters a switch port.
3.6.15 It shall support DHCP Interface Tracker (Option 82) to augment a host IP
address request with the switch port ID.
3.6.16 It shall support port security to secure the access to an access or trunk port
based on MAC address. After a specific timeframe, the aging feature should
remove the MAC address from the switch to allow another device to connect to
the same port. It shall support minimum 6 multi-link trunks with 4 multi-link
groups.
3.6.17 It shall support multilevel security on console access to prevent unauthorized

users from altering the switch configuration.
3.6.18 It shall support BPDU Guard feature, to shut down Spanning Tree Protocol Port
Fast-enabled interfaces when BPDUs are received to avoid accidental topology
loops.
3.6.19 It shall support spanning-Tree Root Guard (STRG) to prevent edge devices not
in the network administrator's control from becoming Spanning Tree Protocol
root nodes or any other industry standard method/protocol.
3.6.20 It shall have support for min. 2000 access control entries (ACEs).
3.7 Management:
3.7.1 The LAN switch shall have CLI support to provide a common user interface and
command set with all routers and switches of the same vendor.
3.7.2 It shall have Remote Monitoring (RMON) software agent to support four RMON
groups (history, statistics, alarms, and events) for enhanced traffic management,
monitoring, and analysis. The LAN switch shall have support for all nine RMON
groups through the use of a mirrored port, which permits traffic monitoring of a
single port, a group of ports, or the entire switch from a single network analyzer
or RMON probe.
3.7.3 It shall have Layer 2 trace route to ease troubleshooting by identifying the
physical path that a packet takes from source to destination.
3.7.4 It shall have Domain Name System (DNS) to provide IP address resolution with
user-defined device names.
3.7.5 It shall support Trivial File Transfer Protocol (TFTP) and File Transfers Protocol
(FTP) to reduce the cost of administering software upgrades by downloading
from a centralized location.
3.7.6 It shall support Simple Network Timing Protocol (SNTP) / Network Timing
Protocol (NTP) to provide an accurate and consistent time stamp to all intranet
switches.
3.7.7 It shall support RMON v1 and v2 standards.
3.7.8 It shall support SNMPv1, SNMPv2, and SNMPv3 and Telnet interface to deliver
comprehensive in-band management, and a CLI-based management console to
provide detailed out-of-band management.
3.7.9 It shall have a console port with RS-232/RJ-45 interface for configuration &
diagnostic purpose.
3.7.10 It shall support all the standard MIBs (MIB-I & II).
3.7.11 It shall support Telnet & SSH V-2 for command line management.
3.7.12 It shall support System & Event logging function as well as forwarding these logs
onto a separate server for log management.
3.7.13 The LAN switch shall support online software reconfiguration to implement
changes without rebooting. For any changes in configuration of switches related
to L-2 & 3 functions, VLAN, STP, Security, QoS or firmware, rebooting the switch
may be allowed.
3.7.14 It shall have comprehensive debugging features required for software &
hardware fault diagnosis.
3.7.15 It shall support multiple privilege levels to provide different levels of access on
console port & telnet sessions.
3.7.16 It shall support following user level access, i.e. the user with minimum privileges:
PING, TELNET, TRACEROUTE, Display of preconfigured description/label on
each interface, Display of Input & output error statistics on all interfaces, Display
of Dynamic ARP table, Display of MAC Address table & Display of Routing
Table.
4.0 LAN SWITCH LAYER 2 TYPE SUITABLE FOR SUB DIVISIONAL HUBS:
4.2.1 The LAN switch shall be available with minimum 56 Gbps Switching Fabric.
per second at 64 byte packet length.
4.2.3 The LAN switch shall support minimum 12000 MAC addresses.
4.2.4 There shall be 255 IGMP groups.
4.2.5 The switch should be stackable with a minimum stacking bandwidth of at least
40 Gbps stacking for a minimum of 4 units.
4.2.6 The switch should support external redundant power supply (RPS).
4.2.7 The switch shall be able to work on both IPv4 and IPv6 (dual stack) from day
one.
4.2.8 All ports in the switch shall operate at wire-speed / line-rate.
4.2.10 It shall have hot swappable fan tray.
4.2.11 The switch shall support 19 inch rack mounting.
4.3 Layer - 2 Features:
4.3.1 The LAN switch shall support IEEE 802.1Q VLAN encapsulation. Minimum 255
VLANs per switch and up to 4000 VLAN IDs.
switches in turn eliminating the configuration errors & troubleshooting.
4.3.4 It shall support spanning-tree Port Fast for fast convergence.
802.3ad.
4.3.7 It shall support IGMP snooping v1, v2 and v3.
4.3.8 It shall support Link Aggregation Protocol (LACP).
4.3.9 It shall Support 802.3ah Ethernet Link OAM for Detection of Unidirectional links
and to disable them to avoid problems such as spanning tree loops and support
Unidirectional Link Detection (UDLD) or equivalent.
in troubleshooting connectivity problems.
4.3.11 It shall support for Switch port auto recovery (err disable) to automatically re-
4.3.12 It shall support Multicast VLAN registration.
4.3.13 It shall support Local Proxy Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) works in
conjunction with Private VLAN Edge to minimize broadcasts and maximize
available bandwidth.
4.3.14 It shall support LLDP / LLDP-MED including client location information. It shall
exchange link and device information in multi vendor networks.
4.3.15 It shall support configuration rollback to replace current configuration with any
saved configuration file.
4.3.16 It shall support link state tracking which provides layer 2 redundancy in the
network when used in conjunction with server teaming.
4.3.17 It shall support configurable maximum transmission unit (MTU) of up to 9000

bytes, with a maximum Ethernet frame size of 9018 bytes (Jumbo frames) for
bridging on Gigabit Ethernet ports.
4.3.18 It shall support auto sensing speed on 10/100/1000 ports, auto negotiating
half/full-duplex on all ports and Auto-MDIX.
4.4 QoS Features:
4.4.1 The LAN switch shall have per-port broadcast, multicast, and unicast storm
control.
4.4.2 It shall have standard 802.1p CoS and DSCP classification using marking and
reclassification on a per-packet basis by source and destination IP address,
source and destination MAC address, or Layer 4 TCP or UDP port number.
4.4.3 It shall have Control- and Data-plane QoS ACLs.
4.4.4 It shall have no performance penalty for highly granular QoS functions.
of up to four traffic types.
4.4.6 There shall be weighted tail drop (WTD) or any other industry standard protocol
to provide congestion avoidance.
4.4.7 There shall be strict priority queuing mechanisms.
4.4.8 Granular Rate Limiting functions to guarantee bandwidth in increments shall be

as low as 64 Kbps.
4.4.9 Rate limiting support based on source and destination IP address, source and
destination MAC address, Layer 4 TCP and UDP information, or any
combination of these fields, using QoS ACLs (IP ACLs (IPv4 and IPv6) or MAC
ACLs), class maps, and policy maps shall be available. ACL should be based on
user defined packet content (Max. 6bytes length user defined).
4.4.10 There shall be support for Asynchronous data flows upstream and downstream
from the end station or on the uplink using ingress policing and egress shaping.
4.4.11 There shall be support for Automatic Quality of Service for easy configuration of
QoS features for critical applications.
4.5.2 The LAN switch shall support for Admission Control features to improve the
network’s ability to automatically identify, prevent, and respond to security
threats and also to enable the switches to collaborate with third-party solutions
for security-policy compliance and enforcement before a host is permitted to
access the network.
4.5.3 It shall support port-based ACLs (PACLs) for Layer 2 interfaces to allow
application of security policies on individual switch ports. It shall also support
VLAN based filters.
packet with a matching MAC address. It shall support Unicast and Multicast
MAC addresses and associated VLANs.
4.5.6 It shall support IGMP filtering which shall provide multicast authentication by
filtering out no subscribers and limits the number of concurrent multicast streams
available per port.
4.5.7 It shall support for SSHv2, SNMPv3 to provide network security by encrypting
administrator traffic during Telnet and SNMP sessions.
4.5.8 The switch shall support 2 session of Port Mirroring based on port basis / VLAN
basis to support intrusion prevention system deployment in different VLANs. It
shall support bidirectional data on mirror port which allows IDS to take action
when an intruder is detected.

users added to or removed from the network / It shall support SNMP Trap for
new MAC notification.
4.5.11 It shall support DHCP snooping to allow administrators to ensure consistent

mapping of IP to MAC addresses. This can be used to prevent attacks that
attempt to poison the DHCP binding database, and to rate limit the amount of
DHCP traffic that enters a switch port.
4.5.12 It shall support DHCP Interface Tracker (Option 82) to augment a host IP
address request with the switch port ID.
the same port.

loops.
4.5.16 It shall support Spanning-Tree Root Guard (STRG) to prevent edge devices not
root nodes.
4.5.17 It shall support for up to 512 access control entries (ACEs).
4.6 Management:
4.6.2 It shall have Remote Monitoring (RMON v1 and v2) software agent to support for
enhanced traffic management, monitoring, and analysis.
4.6.3 It shall have support for RMON groups through the use of a mirrored port, which
permits traffic monitoring of a single port, a group of ports, or the entire switch
from a single network analyzer or RMON probe.
4.6.4 It shall have Time-Domain Reflectometer (TDR) or equivalent technology to

diagnose and resolve cabling problems on copper ports.
4.6.5 It shall have layer 2 trace route to ease troubleshooting by identifying the
physical path that a packet takes from source to destination or it shall support
OAM 802.3ah.
4.6.6 It shall support Trivial File Transfer Protocol (TFTP) and File Transfer Protocol
from a centralized location.
4.6.7 It shall support Simple Network Time Protocol/Network Timing Protocol

(SNTP/NTP) to provide an accurate and consistent timestamp to all intranet
switches.
4.6.9 It shall support SNMPv1, SNMPv2, and SNMPv3 and Telnet interface to deliver
comprehensive in-band management, and a CLI-based management console to
provide detailed out-of-band management.
4.6.10 It shall support IPV6 management. ACL and QoS and IPv6 Neighbor Discovery.
5.0 LAN SWITCH SUITABLE FOR END LOCATIONS (24 Ports):
5.2.1 The LAN switch shall be available with 48 Gbps Switching Fabric.
5.2.4 The LAN switch shall have 255 IGMP groups.
5.2.6 The switch should be stackable with a minimum stacking bandwidth of at least
40 Gbps stacking for a minimum of 4 units.
5.3.1 The LAN switch shall support IEEE 802.1Q VLAN encapsulation. Up to 256
VLANs per switch and upto 4000 VLAN IDs.
5.3.4 It shall support spanning-tree Port Fast guard for fast convergence.
802.3ad.
5.3.8 It shall support Link Aggregation Protocol (LACP) as per IEEE 802.3ad.
5.3.9 It shall support 802.3ah Ethernet Link OAM for Detection of Unidirectional Links
and to disable them to avoid problems such as spanning-tree loops and support
5.3.12 It shall support Local Proxy Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) to work in
available bandwidth.
5.3.13 It shall support LLDP/LLDP-MED exchange link and device information in multi-
vendor networks.
5.3.14 It shall support configuration rollback to any saved configuration can be

managed externally via TFTP.
5.3.15 It shall support Auto sensing speed on 10/100/1000 ports, Auto negotiating
control.
5.4.3 There shall be weighted tail drop (WTD) to provide congestion avoidance or any
other Industry standard protocol.
packet with a matching MAC address.
5.5.4 It shall support IGMP filtering to provide multicast authentication by filtering out
no subscribers and limits the number of concurrent multicast streams available
per port.
intrusion prevention system deployment in different VLANs. It shall support
bidirectional data on mirror port which allows IDS to take action when an intruder
is detected.

users added to or removed from the network or it shall support SNMP Trap for
New MAC notification.
the same port.

loops.
root nodes.
5.6 Management:
monitoring, and analysis.

5.6.5 It shall support Trivial File Transfer Protocol (TFTP) to reduce the cost of
administering software upgrades by downloading from a centralized location

(SNTP/NTP) to provide an accurate and consistent time stamp to all intranet
switches
5.6.8 It shall support SNMPv1, SNMPv2c, and SNMPv3 and Telnet interface support
to deliver comprehensive in-band management, and a CLI-based management
console to provide detailed out-of-band management
6.0 LAN SWITCH SUITABLE FOR END LOCATIONS (8 Ports):
6.1.1 The LAN switch shall be standalone / rack mountable with 8-port 10/100/1000
Mbps with 2 combo 10/100/1000 Base-T/SFP port.
6.2.1 The LAN switch shall be available with minimum 10 Gbps Switching Fabric.
6.2.4 The LAN switch shall have 255 IGMP groups.
6.2.5 The LAN Switch should be PoE compliant as per IEEE802.3af.
6.3.1 The LAN switch shall support IEEE 802.1Q VLAN encapsulation. Minimum 64
VLANs.
6.3.4 It shall support spanning-tree Port Fast guard for fast convergence or any other
industry standard.
802.3ad.
6.3.8 It shall support Link Aggregation Protocol (LACP) as per IEEE 802.3ad.
6.3.9 It shall support 802.3ah Ethernet Link OAM for Detection of Unidirectional Links
and to disable them to avoid problems such as spanning-tree loops and support
6.3.12 It shall support Local Proxy Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) to work in
available bandwidth
6.3.13 It shall support LLDP / LLDP-MED exchange link and device information in multi
vendor networks.
6.3.14 It shall support configuration rollback to replace current configuration with any
saved configuration file.
6.3.15 It shall support Auto sensing speed on 10/100/1000 ports, Auto negotiating
control.
6.4.3 There shall be weighted tail drop (WTD) to provide congestion avoidance or any
other Industry standard protocol.
packet with a matching MAC address.
6.5.4 It shall support IGMP filtering to provide multicast authentication by filtering out
no subscribers and limits the number of concurrent multicast streams available
per port.
intrusion prevention system deployment in different VLANs. It shall support
bidirectional data on mirror port which allows IDS to take action when an intruder
is detected.

users added to or removed from the network.
the same port.

loops.
root nodes.
6.6 Management:
monitoring, and analysis.

6.6.5 It shall support Trivial File Transfer Protocol (TFTP) and File Transfer Protocol
from a centralized location

(SNTP/NTP) to provide an accurate and consistent time stamp to all intranet
switches
6.6.8 It shall support SNMPv1, SNMPv2c, and SNMPv3 and Telnet interface support
to deliver comprehensive in-band management, and a CLI-based management
console to provide detailed out-of-band management
7.0 REGULATORY COMPLIANCE OF LAN SWITCHES:
7.1 The LAN switch shall conform to UL 60950 or IEC 60950 or CSA 60950 or EN
60950 Standards.
7.2 The LAN switch shall conform to EN 55022 Class A/B or CISPR22 Class A/B or
CE Class A/B or FCC Class A/B Standards for EMC.
7.3 The LAN switch shall conform to the Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC)
requirement as per the following standards and limits indicated therein:
 EN55022 class A, FCC class A, VCCI class A Immunity: EN55024,

EN61000-3- levels 2.
7.4 The operating personnel shall be protected against shock hazards as per IS
8473 (1993) – Guide on the effects of current passing through the human body
(equivalent to IEC publications 479 – 1984).
7.5 The switch shall be manufactured in accordance with international quality

standards ISO9001:2008 for which manufacturer should be duly accredited.
8.0 MARKING & PACKING:
8.1 The following information shall be clearly marked at a suitable place on each
equipment:
i) Name and Address of the manufacturer.

ii) Month & Year of the manufacturing.
iii) Serial number of Equipment.
8.2 The equipment and its sub assemblies shall be packed in thermocole boxes and
the empty spaces shall be filled with suitable filling material. Before keeping in
the thermocole box, the equipment shall be wrapped with bubble sheet. The
equipment shall be finally packed in a wooden case of sufficient strength so that
it can withstand bumps and jerks encountered in a road/rail journey.
9.0 DOCUMENTATION:
The supplier shall provide the complete operation, maintenance and installation
manuals in English for the product under procurement.
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SPECIFICATION NO. RDSO/SPN/TC/83/2014

DOCUMENT DATA SHEET

RDSO/SPN/TC/83 /2014 1.0

Director/ Telecom-II/ RDSO

Executive Director/ Telecom/ RDSO

This document specifies technical specification of LAN Switch for IT

DOCUMENT CONTROL SHEET

NAME ORGANIZATION FUNCTION LEVEL

Director/ Telecom-II RDSO Member Prepare

Executive Director/ RDSO -

Version Chapter/ Revision Effective

RDSO/SPN/TC/ 83/2008 - FIRST ISSUE August 2008

RDSO/SPN/TC/ 83/2014, - SECOND ISSUE January 2014

Sr. No. Item Page No.

3. LAN Switch Layer 3 type suitable for Central & Divisional 8

4. LAN Switch Layer 2 type suitable for Sub Divisional Hubs 14

5. LAN Switch Suitable for End Locations (24 Ports) 19

6. LAN Switch Suitable for End Locations (8 Ports) 23

7. Regulatory Compliance of LAN Switches 27

8. Marking & Packing 27

This document covers the technical requirements of LAN Switches for IT

RDSO/ SPN specification is issued as draft specification. This specification is

In the absence of IRS specification, procurement may be made as per RDSO/

Wherever, reference to any specifications appears in this document, it shall be

RESEARCH DESIGNS & STANDARDS ORGANIZATION

Draft Specification of LAN Switch

Draft Specification No: RDSO/SPN/TC/83 /2014 (Revision 1.0)

2.0 GENERAL REQUIREMENTS:

2.4 All cables shall be of Gigabit Ethernet ready standards.

2.5 The LAN switch shall have adequate cooling arrangements.

2.14 Necessary alarms (indicators) for indication of faults at various levels of

3.1 Physical Specification:

3.2 General Specification:

3.2.8 All ports in the switch shall operate at wire-speed / line-rate.

3.2.10 It shall have hot swappable fan tray.

3.2.11 The switch shall support 19 inch rack mounting.

3.3 Layer-2 Features:

3.3.5 It shall support Port-spanning functionality for measurements using a network

3.3.9 It shall support Link Aggregation Protocol (LACP).

3.3.11 It shall support configurable Maximum Transmission Unit (MTU) of up to 9000

3.3.13 It shall support Multicast VLAN registration.

3.3.16 The switch shall support at least 128 STP instances.

3.4 Layer-3 Features:

3.4.1 The LAN switch shall have HSRP/VRRP.

3.4.4 It shall support Policy-Based Routing (PBR).

3.5 Quality of Service (QoS) Features:

3.5.2 It shall have Control- and Data-plane QoS ACLs.

3.5.6 It shall support strict priority queuing mechanisms.

3.5.7 Granular Rate Limiting function to guarantee bandwidth in increments shall be

3.5.11 Up to 64 aggregate or individual policers for per Fast Ethernet or Gigabit

3.5.13 It shall support QoS configuration on per switch port basis.

3.6 Network Security Features:

multicast & unicast storm control to prevent degradation of overall system

3.6.13 It shall support MAC address notification to allow administrators to be notified of

3.6.14 It shall support DHCP snooping to allow administrators to ensure consistent

3.6.17 It shall support multilevel security on console access to prevent unauthorized

3.7.7 It shall support RMON v1 and v2 standards.

4.1 Physical Specification: